So here's an interesting tidbit. Two spreads (four pages) from the Razorback Yearbook have been featured in a textbook. The book is called Creative Editing and you can check it out on Amazon.com right here.

The publishers are working on a Canadian edition, and we got an email asking for our copyright permissions to use the pages. Of course, we agreed. Here's a picture of the pages in context, so you can see just what this book has to say about our work.

Anyways, it's pretty cool to think that the hard work of UA students is being put into a textbook for other students to use as an example. I'm not sure exactly what year these pages are from, although I know it's near 1993 since that's when Bud Walton opened. But I bet the yearbook staffers from back then would be proud to know their work was still being acknowledged.

And if you want a look at the new things coming from the Razorback staff, we have just put up some sneak peek pages from our 2009 book! You can check them out here on Facebook, or at the Sneak Peek page on our website. Be sure to let us know what you think!
-Megan

Labels: awards, editing, past yearbooks, razorback, textbook, yearbook

My new goal: Find yearbooks from the past and upload them to our "/archive" section.

Well kids, it's happening. Each week we're scanning and uploading more and more of past yearbooks. Johanna has been helping to speed up this process.

Right now I'm happy to report that we've scanned every cover that we have in the Yearbook Office. Yes, I know we're really low in some decades. Don't fear! Megan is searching out these missing books and I'm finding copies all across town.

Soon we'll start uploading pages from these magnificent books. You'll soon be able to read each book on the internet! Sounds like a migraine waiting to happen right? At first we'll be uploading interesting pages/spreads, but eventually we'll have everything on the site. Just give us time.

Do you have any copies? Send them our way!

In the meantime, check out our archive section and tell us what you think in the comments.

Labels: 1900, archive, past yearbooks, razorback

Today, when Jon was in the Traveler office scanning past yearbook covers for the archive section of the site, he found a gem: a VERY well preserved edition of the 1907 Cardinal. From the founding of the yearbook in 1897 until it became the Razorback in 1916, the Arkansas book was called the Cardinal. (The Arkansas mascot was, in fact, the Cardinal until 1910.) Our oldest copy of any book is from 1911, and we have to keep it in an envelope to preserve the pages that aren't connected to one another anymore. Therefore, this was an amazing find. 

Labels: 1907 Cardinal, history, past yearbooks